Hayt's Chapel and Schoolhouse
Hayt's Chapel and Schoolhouse | |
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| Location | 1296-1298 Trumansburg Rd., Ithaca, New York |
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| Area | 0.6 acres (0.24 ha) |
| Built | 1850 |
| Architect | Hayt, Charles |
| Architectural style | Greek Revival, Gothic Revival |
| MPS | Freedom Trail, Abolitionism, and African American Life in Central New York MPS |
| NRHP reference No. | 05001453[1] |
| Added to NRHP | December 22, 2005 |
Hayt's Chapel and Schoolhouse consists of a historic church and a historic school building located at Ithaca in Tompkins County, New York. The chapel is a small rectangular frame gable roofed structure constructed in 1847 and measuring approximately 20 feet by 40 feet. The structure features a number of Gothic Revival details. There is a small entrance vestibule added sometime in the 1930s or 1940s when the building was converted for school use.
In 1996, the Town of Ithaca honored the location with a historic marker.[2] The buildings were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.[1]
Chapel
[edit | edit source]Passage of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 split members of Ithaca's Presbyterian congregation (located next to DeWitt Park).[2] The church's Rev. Dr. William Wisner was strongly pro-slavery, and a number of anti-slavery church members split with the congregation to establish their own church.[2] This group, headed by prominent abolitionist Charles Hayt, along with Murdock Halsey and others, set up a small gothic church on land donated by Hayt.[2]
Hayt's Chapel was referred to as the "Abolition Church" and was thought to have been a stop on the Underground Railroad, which roughly followed the western shore of Cayuga Lake along route 96. Abolitionist meetings were held in the schoolhouse and chapel.[2]
Schoolhouse
[edit | edit source]Hayt's Schoolhouse was built prior to the church, in the 1830s and is a one-story frame T-shaped building in the Greek Revival style. The one-room school remained in use until 1964 and has since been converted to an apartment.[3] The schoolhouse retains features such as its blackboard and flagpole.[2]
References
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- Properties of religious function on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state)
- Defunct schools in New York (state)
- Churches on the Underground Railroad
- Churches completed in 1847
- 19th-century churches in the United States
- Churches in Tompkins County, New York
- 1847 establishments in New York (state)
- Buildings and structures in Ithaca, New York
- National Register of Historic Places in Tompkins County, New York
- Underground Railroad in New York (state)
- Finger Lakes, New York Registered Historic Place stubs
- New York (state) church stubs